and implored freydon try and counter his live shot by setting himself on fire contained in a deadly trend of this brazen driven self-immolation is across europe i mean daily it depicts a growing drops crisis. to throw comes clean about the death of a top secret prison after the media reveals it was forced to keep silent with the water coming from the country's very top. and looking up enormous civilian casualties with its war on terror drone program about to get announced as a brand new medal pulled those at the remote joysticks of the death machine.

international news live from moscow this is r.t. with me thanks for joining us. and ultimate boast of desperation a man has died after setting fire to himself at a french job center is the latest self-immolation incident in unemployment plagued each hugh the forty three year old who'd been refused benefits had reportedly been given signals of pesos sidle and tantrums but they went unnoticed by the authorities more details now from all his tests elsie. that said it reports that he had actually set a letter to some journalists saying that he was going to do this this week so the police had said that they had set of surveillance outside that employment agency but they didn't manage to see him he was already on fire they said he had entered through a side street and therefore this tragedy had happened now the man did this after finding out that he is no longer eligible for those unemployment benefits and this is not the first time it has happened in france in august we know that

a fifty year old jobless man had done the same and this is a worrying sign for france for a country that has seen its unemployment rising for the past twenty months and this after a president had been elected on a campaign of jobs and growth so we haven't seen any improvements on this front so a lot has declared twenty thirteen as a battle for jobs he said that by the end of the year there would be he would be creating jobs for the french people however statistics show that by midyear the number is set to rise and let's not forget that more than three million french people this number does not include people who have quit the unemployment program because they simply have exhausted all their benefits similar to the case of the man who had just burned him self and also those young people who had never registered or those who were in part time jobs if we look at the trend we've seen a lot of suicides and attempted suicides in countries like greece one of the hardest hit euro zone countries because of this eurozone crisis there's a general feeling of the still in the country a lot of people going out in protest we've also heard of stories of suicides in

italy another hard hit country so if we're looking at the trend that's happening in europe we hope it does not continue but we could see a lot more of expressions of dissatisfaction. meanwhile there's been a dramatic growth in the gap between rich and poor in the u.k. this dark figures revealed by a british thing tank also warned that families are likely to endure at least fifteen years of squeezed incomes until living standards recover to pre-crisis levels and matthew with take it seen a columnist at the resolution foundation says it's not going to get better anytime soon but we're seeing at the moment is that there's a squeeze on living standards which is affecting households throughout the entire income distribution and that's mainly a result of the recession and austerity policies but actually for a very sizable group around about ten million adults who live in low to middle income households and that squeeze actually started sometime before so even joining the growth years of the two thousands incomes and earnings within that group were

already stagnating they were flat lining if not falling when the reality is now of life from low to middle income is that day to day pressures become much more of a struggle than they used to be so we know that two thirds of the group struggle to meet household bills and debt repayments more than half have no savings two thirds have no pension savings failing to do anything in this and ending up with family and households who have no increase in their living standards in their innings first of all social problems because it's a very large group to be in that situation but also it's an economic problem because because this group are also consumers so they are one of the drivers of economic growth and so what we what we now expect to see is that yes g.d.p. growth may return but that's not necessarily going to be enough to actually recover the position of the of these ten million. israeli government has been forced to admit about the death of a man in custody dubbed prisoner x. who was linked to the country's secret service admission follows a reported there was trying to impress which prevailed and melbourne man hand

himself in prison after months of being held in secret for over two years ago. while now details were given as to why he was being housed it's reported prison x. was involved in an israeli astronaut in neighboring countries the story had been originally hashed up and these reading media but they would have reportedly coming from the very top and columnist and senior correspondent for israel's harris newspaper here or in has been times that asian is a source of embarrassment to the country. on one level it's an espionage story and mystery regarding the foreign intelligence service mossad and the tragic. circumstances under which one of its operatives apparently found his death on another level it's government versus press story and the press here has been struggling against various government agencies and gradually has been able to leave at least some of the secrecy surrounding this story there was

a gag order here apparently and the for this was the case and one cannot confirm it independently from israel but again embarrassing as it is one has to rely on foreign sources if that is true and a gag order was signed by a judge then one would have been subject to prosecution if one were to violate it so apparently even though the israeli press is far from being lazy for the last two years it has waited passively for someone abroad in this case australia to break the story. four police officers have been killed and six more injured in an explosion in russia's south of republic of dagestan in the morning a suicide bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint while his car was being searched the police presence has been stepped up in the region with authorities currently trying to corner

a group of militants allegedly behind the terror act or vehicles going to and from the city of course of europe where the incident occurred are being tracked now and russia's interior ministry says the fact that security forces stopped the suspect's vehicle prevented an even greater tragedy among civilians the incident happened just a week after special services and august one killed the last remaining terrorist involved in the twenty ton bombing of the moscow metro that left so that. they may be known as the faceless killers of modern warfare but it seems the u.s. military wants them firmly in the spotlight defense secretary leon panetta has announced the creation of the distinguished medal which will be handed out joystick will doing drawn pilots who wage their battles far from the front line and to find out more now i'm joined here in the studio by. so what is it american servicemen

have to do to win one of those well basically to be frank the american serviceman has to do very little other than sit around in a chair and point mouse click and then direct the drone of the. satellite to voice that was supposed to hit with a drone but really it's it's an award which is supposed to reward a military act in a military operation which does not involve an act of valor it will be a ranking of all the bronze star but will be below a silver star both of these of course are given for who are action in combat this medal by the way you can see it right here is actually not even that hasn't come out yet it's just something that's in the making however. it will be given out to two pilots of drones again people who sit around in and in various locations around the world mostly in the united states and basically use computers to direct those very drones now above the effectiveness off the entire drone warfare of course

there have been a lot of questions about it there have been numerous studies performed there's one which was conducted by the stanford school of law as well as the new york university school of law and that study after afterwards has called for the reevaluation of the practice because in their report that he said that the number of high level targets that is of actual people who have been who have been identified as potentially highly dangerous terrorists that number is actually just two percentage elation to the total number of casualties and the number of total casualties has been put somewhere between two and a half thousand and three three point three thousand people from the day one of the drone attacks over the course of eight years between two thousand and two and two thousand and twelve now of course there's the siller of controversy surrounding the drone strikes and do you have to understand that ironically the number of deaths which have occurred during the obama administration actually according again to rough estimates is more than four times what it was during the bush administration

so again this will be a medal which will be awarded to pilots of the drones for essentially killing people and places like pakistan like a pakistani tribal areas between pakistan and afghanistan and there's very little information about who they are actually killing but still people behind in the middle which will be ranking higher than that than in the metal bush would be given to a person who has actually committed an act of terrorism in combat. and the situation with the new metal i.c.u. arena thank you very much indeed for that update very interesting indeed it is. being on the un says molly risked being dragged into further violence and reprisal killings fresh legations of atrocities in the embattled west african country have emerged following the rapid advance of french intervention forces they've been helping the unelected government of mali reclaim sitters captured by islamic militants and journalist good solid want to reports now from the war zone forty. to

both him money yes going to. the united nations already describes the situation in mali is a disaster the u.n. human rights commission says the country's caught in a spiral of violence fraught with grievous consequences the situation has been made worse in the wake of ferocious fighting in and around the city of northern mali following four days of fierce resistance from insurgents complete with suicide attacks and the french military has been forced to conclude that some of the locals made an extremist that however some of the key areas in this conflict are still off limits to international journalists with the french army denying us passage saying it was for our own security and the un high commissioner for human rights not people laid made it plain in a recent statement that the situation in mali is only deteriorated following the foreign military intervention you know that that the insurgency in mali is aggravated by ethnic clashes. camera crew witnessed instances of eggs exclusions

and brutalities the perpetrators by the mali an army and survived. the military are not the only ones and gauged in hunting down people arable quarry origin are believed to be part of the insurgency and even the locals are going after them as well and for some time it has been difficult to find people from either of those ethnic groups anywhere in mali and this brings us back to the fact that more than three hundred thirty thousand people have been forced to flee from their homes because of the crisis the last straw for all those refugees and indeed for all of mali as been a statement by al qaida coming out of the arabian peninsula which calls upon every muslim to join the holy war against france a war that is being fought in mali against the will of its people. but i don't think and on the way this hour the pirates on the caribbean on the

ground as well the legal controversy. sees it as a time when island state has four millions of dollars worth of material. to make a profit that launches defense contract saying that you asked about a but can predict people's future behavior from the social network data sparking a fresh wave of piracy privacy concerns that this report stressed. wealthy british style some time to explain the current. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy

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this is on c welcome back the u.s. government stepping up efforts to spawn its citizens with a new defense software able to predict people's future behavior and locations however with the program only using data submitted voluntarily via social networks their stories emerge unscathed when it comes to claims of privacy violations is going to check out how small for. those of you who are using social networks will find this interesting the world's fifth largest defense contractor raytheon a multinational for him based in massachusetts came up with a software that can map out your life and even predict your moves your behavior based on the information that you provide on websites like facebook twitter or foursquare the guardian has obtained a video. where a raytheon staffer explains and shows how it works the program is called raw it someone already branded it google for spice just a few clicks and it creates diagrams charts maps showing who you've communicated

with most online your associations and relationships places where you check in most you know over twenty five million people use this app called foursquare to alert friends of their whereabouts so the program uses that and also the photos that people take on smartphones often have lead to tootin longitude details automatically embedded in them so this riot program at a quick or two can analyze all that data and as the gentleman in the video claims it can roughly predict where to find you at a given time and potentially your behavior based on your interests so this firm that developed the software a major defense contractor has acknowledged that the technology was shared with the u.s. government as part of a joint research and development effort to help build the national security system capable of analyzing quote unquote trillions of entities from cyber space that reminds me of the conversation that i had with william binney a mathematician a spy software expert who had worked for the national security agency for decades

and who told us that the government is spying on people on a much larger scale and they're building social networks is part of it take a listen they were building social networks. who who is communicating and with whom inside this country so that your entire social network of everybody there are u.s. citizen was being compiled. over time so they're taking from one company alone roughly three hundred twenty million records a day. over time that that's probably accumulated up to close to twenty trillion over the years mr binney blew the whistle on this n.s.a. program seeing it as a blatant violation of the constitution but with this right software one can argue that they use the information that individuals have already chosen to make public they put it out there and most people know that privacy safeguards that for example facebook provides don't hold water really and yet people choose to share so if you don't want someone to be able to map out your entire life and to be able to potentially predict your behavior stop checking in everywhere and turn off location

services on your phone or maybe you don't want that in that case no worries. right now it's time for a quick look at some of the content waiting for you on our web site and here are some of the stories waiting there for you so we can leaks founder julian assange has completed step towards those trillion senate by submitting an application to enroll in elections despite still being holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy in london so when the details on our website. on the world's second most powerful i spoke illegal looks set to expand towards the mediterranean and may soon even include a team from italy down to what european cities are in line to join the cage i shall take into. account or has confirmed its hundred series embassy in the capital doha had to the sea were in opposition which has already appointed an ambassador the building had

been closed about a year ago as the gulf nation was among the first to recognize the syrian national coalition and political activist yes on a says the move however will not make much difference. it's not an addition to the political weight of the syrian national coalition in my view this is a this is primarily a crime primarily to reinject some life into the syrian national coalition especially after the several blows that it received there since it's since it was formed we know that they want to. overthrow the regime they couldn't so far they wanted to achieve some liberated lands and more than in northern syria and they didn't so far and they also wanted to form a transitional government on syrian soil and they're meeting in the us it's the moon recently failed in doing so so i think i think this movement by by qatar

especially that last couple of considers itself the main backer of the syrian national coalition because it was its own project so it's its lines are masked and we inject some life into it after after the deficiencies that. a teenager has reportedly been killed in bahrain after clashes between police and protesters demonstrators there have also set up roadblocks on the second anniversary of the country's anti regime uprising the crowds included people calling for an end to reconciliation talks between the country's opposition on the sunni rulers in twenty eleven the country's gets responded to calls for change and joined the arab spring so he goes on they still face police brutality systematic torture by the authorities and human rights abuses the gulf monarchies quieted down and poor reform campaign is so opposite a see people killed on both sides and fountains of activists and so protesters say their demands to end discrimination release all political prisoners have not been

let. to some of the stories from around the globe for you five people have been confirmed dead after a plane crash landed in ukraine's eastern industrial hub donetsk the. wait for tripod crew on board overshot the runway overturned. survivors managed to escape through holes that had opened up in the plane most of the passengers were flying to danette star turned a champions league clash between local side show your germany's barista dorm and a problem with one of the entrances a spy is suspected to have caused the accident. south korea has unveiled a cruise missile which it says it's capable of hitting even the authors of north korea's leader is the move come just two days after the north carried out a nuclear test was sure the world domination so and beyond young had technically been at war same thing nineteen fifties with tensions not receding on the korean peninsula to this day there are three months ago south korea reached

a deal with washington to extend its ballistic missile range and it's not. even his two other vice president has announced the country's charismatic leader hugo chavez has started a new stage of work you can ration following his latest council peroration in cuba travis has not made a public appearance until months now however according to his v.p. the president's fast approaching a full recovery the leaders yet to be officially sworn in for his with the inauguration postponed indefinitely due to his health problems. the u.s. is on the legal defense against the tiny caribbean nation of antigua and barbuda files to ruling by they world trade organization the twin island state is now moving to the way of twenty one million dollars worth of coal point protection and american goods yet and some say the case has created a dangerous precedent for piracy as well she's nice to see reports.

heavenly spot in the caribbean welcome to antigua and barbuda a tiny country with a population of under ninety thousand people. gambling is a popular pastime here for locals and tourists alike i won't say as a last vegas of the caribbean because i mean i have a lot of caribbean countries that. i should stay with sometimes be a stepping stone ahead of a lot of the other casinos but an even more powerful money maker here a mere decade ago was the online gaming business we once had a thriving. internet gaming industry and to get employed over four thousand people in that industry is gone no jew to actions of the united states legally licensed internet gambling companies provided jobs for five percent of the locals and rocketed in over three billion dollars annually but with americans as the key players u.s. officials weren't happy and bad off shore gaming even though the industry was completely legal in america sneezes and the rest of the world catches the cold.

from thousands of jobs and tremendous cash inflow to an industry crumbled and those who make it up treated as criminals they were prosecution of persons who had companies operating companies and until you go on these for us and some of them were indicted and arrested who had their property and from. the potential targets people like this online gambling operator fearful of what the u.s. can do to him because of his business legally licensed in antigua he wants to remain anonymous. but what about. the forms or. literally hundreds of stolen from. williams. the island nation has had enough and has put a fight at the world trade organization for its legal rights money and regaining

a collapsed industry it's been going on for a decade. and we think it's time to bring the plane into the w t o took the side of the tiny country in a decision that ruffled the feathers of the u.s. the world trade organization and he has the right to basically grab the assets of the united states including in particular copyrights trademarks patents so they can sell microsoft word for a dollar each the w t o decision allows and t. get to completely ignore us copyright laws until the money loss due to the online gaming collapse is made up for but limited to twenty one million dollars a year the u.s. concern now is that the w t o has potentially laid out a welcome mat for the forthcoming pirates of the caribbean but the tiny island nation spends a billion giants we have helped to play first actually wiping out the second largest source of the a team in economy i'm sure the dispute between american

mentee go frightens many locals because of what may come next they won't talk about it on camera but for tourists the slap in the face of the u.s. is all the gossip that kind of money it is and it's not going to hurt the u.s. economy that much as it will just in the going to be no. but also will take some action against it as well while until guns have won a battle at the w t o there is still a long fight ahead first time that a small country took on a war country in the world trade organization. and it was then it's kind of you know a bad thing that the united states is just ignoring you know the ball is now in the court of this little island while the copyright left is now an official option to cash in on and to go hopes it might be able to negotiate a deal with the u.s. that is good for all before all ships have sailed and r.t. reporting from mt again barbuda in the caribbean. and in just

a couple of minutes the unique take on the world's financial headlines that marks kaiser and the kind of. helicopters flying through the air day and night two rounds of assault rifle ammo popping as the choppers buzz over the land now this unique form of hell of terror is no longer restricted to those in vietnam in the middle east now houston miami residents of the good old usa can get in on the fun houston residents in terror called nine one one and scrambled for cover and even to schools put on lockdown as a military helicopters participate in a multi-agency training for ill in miami at night in the middle of downtown onlookers caught a video on.